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<h2>Welcome to ed.</h2>

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ed stands for "easy development".  There are many PHP frameworks out there but I think that I can make my own framework worth just as much as those other dudes so I'm going to stick to it.  I think that my framework is easy to use and works nicer than those other ones that try to be all slick with uber reusable code and such.
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In this directory you'll find all sorts of wonderful framework-y type things from config files to interesting tidbits of informstion inside the comments of each file.  You'll find all the PHP source under the "lib" directory.
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<b>ed 1.0</b> is born out of many revisions and recreations of my "fudge" API libraries that I've been working on for the past several years.  The first iteration of this set of APIs was born from the need to develop PHP applications quicker and get rid of the tedious database and session actions that repeat themselves inside of each new application.  After 2 years without a name, I decided to name the API package after myself for lack of a better name.  Since I was the only one using the APIs I saw no harm in that and it wasn't really an ego thing.  Now that I want to expand the use and possibly the availability of the API libraries I'm creating, I figure I should choose a new name.
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The PHP frameworks out there currently are CakePHP and PHPit and PRADO and so on, but I find each of them difficult to understand at first.  Some want you to name your databases in a certain way and create config files with your database schema in them and so on.  My goal is to make the APIs do that work for you.  I want my APIs to be smart enough to do common figgerin' for themselves and let you just do your work how you want to do it.  A framework should help you do your job better, not tell you how to do it better.
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Always striving to be better, the <b>easy dev (ed)</b> framework is born. [ 4:05am November 1, 2008 ]
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<p>Example:</p>
<? ed::load("Core.Test");
$class = new Test();
print "<p><b>".$class->loaded()."</b></p>";
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